Cake

Networking, it seems, means cake:dirt-brown chocolate;fruit cake, speckled as an unwiped work surface;lemon drizzle, citrus edge strangled by sugar.Trays of cake, cobbled into small squaresthat hardly anyone eats,if they are talking.

Networking, it seems, can measure its successin square inches of remaindered sweetness,because we can’t have our cakeand talk it.